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MAL-TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 22, 1908.

Application lied April 11, "0O. lcrlal No. 426,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enwls S. LIPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Myrtle Point, in the county of Coos and State of Oregon,have invented a new and useful Animal-Trap, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to animal traps, and more especially to thosedesigned to catch rats.

The object of the invention is to provide a trap wherein the entrance ofthe animal will by improved mechanism close a door behind lum and causehim to attempt to escape to a chute and his passage through the chutewill result in the resetting of said trap.

The invention comprises a trap of the character dem'ribed especiallyarranged to be placed over a barrel or tub of water or the ike, althoughit may be used in connection with a rearwardly disposed cage, or a cagearranged beneath the trap proper.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of constructionand arrangement of ""18, hereinafter fully dcscrilwd, illustrator in theiu'companying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a'perspective view of thedevice with the top removed and a portion of one side wall broken awaFig. 2 is a cross section therethrough. l' ig. 3 is a longitudinalsection through the entrance passage, showing the trap in the setposition. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the manner in which the trapis set.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondinparts throughout the several figures of the rawings.

The numeral 10 indicates the body of the trap which may be made of woodor metal ant may be made solid as here shown or conslat of a-wire bod asme he desired. On one end of the y 10 is ormed an opening 11communicatin with the. passage 12, which is termed t e entrance passage.At

. the far end of the passa 012 is provided a bait box 13. One wall 0 thebody serves to form one wall of this passage, and a partition 14 servesto form the opposite wall thereof. 'lhe partition 14 is cut away, asindicated at 15, and adjacent the cut away portion thereof is held apartition 16..

The )ortion of the body inclosed between the end and the side walls andthe partitions 14 and 16 constitutes a downwardly extending chute, whichis )rovided with a trap door 17, pivoted as at 8, and normally held toclose the bottom of said clmte by means of a counter-weight 19. In thepartition 14 is formed an arched o )ening 20, and a wire 21 is held uponthe trap oor 17 to project through this opening, as indicated at 22.

Atljflt'tflt the opening 11 is mounted a door 23 preferably of tin orthe like and solid, the door 23 being pivoted on a suitable hinge as at24. It is to benoted that the door 23 takes the position when closedshown in the dotted lines at 23' in Fig. 3. Suitably positioned adjacentthe path of the bottom edge of said door is a latch 25, provided with acam surface 26, said latch being pivoted as at 27.

ounted in the entrance passage upon a pivot 28 is a bent lever 29, atthe lower end whereof is carried a t-readle it". The beat lever '2'.)extends through a suitable slot 3!, and is provided with a portion 32arranged to lie adjacent the latch 25 and contact with the cam surface26 thereon. In the downwardly extending elmte before mentioned is formeda barred window 33 for the purpose of ad-: mitting light tberethrough.

In the operation of the device, the parts being arranged as shown infull lines in Fig. 3, the animal enters by the opening 11 and goes backtoward the feed box 13. As he attempts to reach this box, he steps 11 onthe treadle 30, which lifts the end 32 of t 1e lever 20 against the camsurface 26 of the latch 25, thus causing said latch to withdraw fromcontact with the edge of the door, and permitting the door to assume theposition shown in dotted lines at 23 in that ii re. The noise of thedoor dropping behin the animal startles him and be naturally seeks meansof escape from the now closed entrance passage. The cut-away portion ofthe partition 15 ail'ords a ready means for his doing this, and he jumpsthrou b that partition hoping to escape througi the barred window 33. Assoon, however, as he strikes the bottom of the chute, the trap door 17tilts up into the position indicated in Fig. 4, and the finger 22 raisesthe door again to operative position, as shown in that. figure.

The lever 29 having been released from the weightot' the animal dropshack, and )ermits the catch to pass under the edge of t to door andsecure the same in open position. Meanwhile, the animal has passedthrough the ehuttn; The device as previously set forth may be used byplacing the same onthc top of e berrel or tub of weter or it mey bemenufeetured, if referred, with e cege loeeted under the y eny suchother position, as to the reer of seid portion, ee mey be deemededvieeble.

It is to be noticed thet there is here provided e sim le end effectivedevice of this cherecter w iich consists of ver, few perts end thosereedily msnufecturei the whole being free from complicated mechenisms.

It is obvious that minor chenges mey be mede in the form endconstruction of this device, end it is desired to cleim ell such es prorly come within the scope thereof.

\ het is eleimed is:--

I. An snimel trep comprising e body having en entrence pessege thereinend en outlet therefrom, e .door in seid entrence essege em to be openwhen seid trep is set, e letch evlng e cem thereon to eng 0 seid doorwhen open e trip to release Slit letch and permit t It! door to close,and meens setueted b the pssssge of en enimel throu h seid out et toopen seid door end reset and trep.

2. An enimel trep comprising e body having en entrence pessege thereinand en outlet therefrom, s door in seid entrence pessege errenged to beopen when seid trep is set, e

portion ebove described, or

letch heving e cem thereon to engege seid door end retein the eeme inthe open ition, e lever to be opereted b pressure t ereon to era; seidcem en withdrew seid letch en re eeee seid door end meens ectueted bythe pessege of en enimel through seid outlet to open seid door end resetand tre 1 An enimel tre comprising e body heving s horisontel en rencepeseege end e verticel chute forming en outlet therefrom, e 1 door inseid entrence essege erre to be open when seid trep is set, e letcheving e cem thereon to engege seid door end retein the some in the openposition, e treedle, e lever supporting and treedle provided with e 1tin er to eng e the cem on seid letch and wit drew'the etch fromengagement with the door when seid treedle is de ressed, s trep door etthe bottom of seid c lute, end meens etteched to seid trep door to resetseid entrence door.

In testimony that I elsim the foregoingns' my own, I heve hereto ellixedmy signeture in the presence of two witn.

' EDWIN S. LIPP.

Witnesses:

L. E. Rossms, W. ll. Wrosur

